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AURORA TURF NOTES E H McMahon owner and trainer of the Evergreen Stable received three more horses from his farm Friday Bobbie R Ever ¬ green Doll and Evergreen Rose were the trio unloaded unloadedThe The six horses that Harry G Woods will train for the St Louis Stable are No Change Copain Deemster Pharahead Backward Never and Try King They came from Ar ¬ lington Downs Texas and were unloaded late today todayThree Three new nominations were received by racing secretary Dick Leigh today to swell the total named for the 10000 added Illi ¬ nois Derby to forty horses George Ogle whose Indian Runner was a surprise handi ¬ cap star of last season named the black gelding Patchpocket by Cohort from Patch Work as the one to carry his colors in the Derby T C Worden sent on the applica ¬ tion of Mr Bun and Secluded SecludedJ J D Mikel wired today from Texas for stables for twentytwo horses that he is ship ¬ ping to Aurora over the weekend With the close of the Alamo Downs meeting at San Antonio scheduled for next week a special train of several cars of horses will be shipped to Illinois Some of the horses will come to Aurora to race during the last half of the Fox Valley meeting while oth ¬ ers will stop off at Fairmount where a thirtyfour day meeting opens May 26 26Jockey Jockey T P Martin reported sick and was allowed to cancel the mount on Fire Star in the fifth race Friday FridayW W T Graves arrived Friday from New Orleans with the fiveyearold Abe Furst FurstBlessed Blessed Event and Boy Valet recently purchased by A G Tarn for W C Stroube arrived Friday from Maryland and were de ¬ livered to Nelson Ings IngsD D J Murphy with the horses owned by P J and F Rossiter arrived from Mary ¬ land Another arrival was S Cleary with Daisaburo and others othersWalter Walter Peacock a member of the Illinois Racing Commission made his first visit to Exposition FridayAfter Park Friday After a more rigid examination It was found that jockey Reggie Cooper sustained a broken collarbone in his fall from Vin Noir Thursday He will probably be absent from the saddle for the remainder of the meeting meetingFormer Former jockey W Harrison who rode with much success thirty years ago la an arrival from Winona 111 with two horses namely Kildee Mary and Satanic which he purchased from Judge C W Hay Jockey HayJockey J Strong who is under contract to Chappel Bros had his first mount of the meeting when he drew the assignment on SaturdayT Brilliant Dee In the first race Saturday T J Debprd changed trainers when he appointed C Bales to supplant J P Waite Southard and Wishing Star
